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So I think the article is about Wingsuit Proximity Flying, and what you're describing is Wingsuit BASE Jumping. Are these two considered 2 separate, albeit simi

• manarth 9y ago
  Can any pilot practicing BASE Jumping leap off a cliff or do you somehow train for this? Technically, all that's needed is money to buy a wingsuit and a parachute, and a cliff. Without training, they might manage to get the wingsuit operating properly for some of the flight, but I wouldn't want to see the odds of a successful landing. The general training arc would be to learn wingsuiting from an aircraft (like a regular skydive), and build up hours/experience flying a wingsuit in clear air (and deploying a parachute several thousand feet above the ground), before going into wingsuit base jumping (and build up experience there before going into prox). There's some more detail in this Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-take-to-become-a-wingsuit-flyer-How-do-people-practice-something-that-could-so-easily-turn-deadly-How-do-people-pinpoint-the-right-terrain-What-kind-of-physical-strength-do-people-need-to-resist-the-wind-and-hold-themselves-even https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-take-to-become-a-wingsuit...